Pollsters Scramble to Get Accurate Numbers on Donald Trump

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Politico – He ran away with the Republican presidential nomination, but America’s pollsters are still trying to figure out Donald Trump.

Ten months after the New York billionaire announced his White House bid, pollsters are grappling with his force-of-nature candidacy and the many questions it raises for their industry. Will he produce a surge of new voters that they can’t predict? Will voters be less likely to admit to live pollsters that they intend to support him in November? And given the talk of a potential third-party candidacy, how would that prospect scramble the polls?